Hey all, I would like to create a new user support mailing list called " user...@flink.apache.org" to cater the Chinese-speaking Flink community.
Why? In the last year 24% of the traffic on flink.apache.org came from the US, 22% from China. In the last three months, China is at 30%, the US at 20%. An additional data point is that there's a Flink DingTalk group with more than 5000 members, asking Flink questions. I believe that knowledge about Flink should be available in public forums (our mailing list), indexable by search engines. If there's a huge demand in a Chinese language support, we as a community should provide these users the tools they need, to grow our community and to allow them to follow the Apache way. Is it possible? I believe it is, because a number of other Apache projects are running non-English user@ mailing lists. Apache OpenOffice, Cocoon, OpenMeetings, CloudStack all have non-English lists: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ One thing I want to make very clear in this discussion is that all project decisions, developer discussions, JIRA tickets etc. need to happen in English, as this is the primary language of the Apache Foundation and our community. We should also clarify this on the page listing the mailing lists. How? If there is consensus in this discussion thread, I would request the new mailing list next Monday. In case of discussions, I will start a vote on Monday or when the discussions have stopped. Then, we should put the new list on our website and start promoting it (in said DingTalk group and on social media). Let me know what you think about this idea :) Best, Robert PS: In case you are wondering what ZH stands for: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ZH
